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Table 1 Clinical profiles of HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP) patients

From: Distinct gene expression signatures induced by viral transactivators of different HTLV-1 subgroups that confer a different risk of HAM/TSP

 

Tax A (n = 19)

Tax B (n = 18)

p value

Age at onset

47.0 ± 16.7

44.2 ± 15.9

0.3467

Sex (Male: Female)

9: 19

14: 70

0.1374

Serum anti-HTLV-1 antibody titera

283.4 ± 461.3

441.4 ± 1049.0

0.6889

HTLV-1 provirus load in PBMCsb

873.2 ± 1046.9

745.3 ± 609.2

0.7394

OMDSc

5.9 ± 2.1

5.8 ± 2.3

0.6908

Duration of illness

15.1 ± 9.2

17.4 ± 9.8

0.3621

  1. The results represent the mean ± SD
  2. aAnti-HTLV-1 antibodies were titrated using the particle agglutination method
  3. bHTLV-1 Tax copy number per 104 PBMCs
  4. cOMDS: Osame Motor Disability Score (see Additional file 1: Table S1)
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